Pernod Ricard India Foundation

10/03/2021

| In April 2020, Pernod Ricard India Foundation reconfigured its WE Social Impact Incubator to accelerate Innovations by women entrepreneurs.

This week, as we continue to celebrate women in our business and communities, watch Shivi Kapil, Founder & CEO, Empathy Design Labs, talk about her solution which has helped pregnant women across the urban-rural divide to monitor their prenatal health amid restricted access to hospitals in view of preventive lockdowns across the country during the last year.

We are proud to incubate such innovations and enable women changemakers in their journey to drive inclusive and scalable social impact.

09/03/2021

At Pernod Ricard India, It is our constant endeavor to enable and empower women not only in our business but beyond it as well, in the communities we work with.

The Pernod Ricard India Foundation WE Social Impact Incubator is a one of a kind program focused on involving, enabling and promoting women entrepreneurs and enterprises working exclusively for women with technology, mentorship, networking, business advisory, incubation and fellowship funding support.

On this , We are pleased to share Marut Drones' innovative 'Seedcopter' idea being incubated as part of our cohort with CIE@IIITH . The programme centralizes rural women at the heart of an ambitious reforestation effort to recover thinned down, degraded and fragmented forests.

Read more: https://lnkd.in/gWwDpwU

10/02/2021

At Pernod Ricard India, we believe that investing and supporting women is not just a social justice issue, but it is also a powerful opportunity to foster inclusion and diversity in our communities.

By tapping on their entrepreneurial acumen and building capabilities for leadership, operational and financial management, The WAL program is enabling more than 4300+ rural women to lead grassroot development initiatives from the front.

In Picture: Munni Lodhi, a WAL beneficiary in Madhya Pradesh processes fresh groundnut kernels at the village level collection center which is fully owned and operated by her women producer group.

Learn more about our efforts to visibilize rural women's immense contribution to agriculture in India at www.prifoundation.com

02/02/2021

On this , we celebrate our shared efforts with communities to protect, manage and restore 4,200 acres of critical habitats in the watershed of our operations and beyond.

The WAL programs engages more than 2,000 farmers to drive landscape level afforestation, slope-area treatment, silt application and natural pisciculture in and around water bodies, fields and forest buffer areas near 4 PRI plants.

In Picture: 8,000 tree saplings strategically lined along bunds of 380+ farm ponds in Medak, Telangana serve the dual purpose of strengthening water structures and greening the landscape in region.

Learn more about our efforts in natural resource management in the PRI CSR Program Report 2020 at www.prifoundation.com.

28/01/2021

| Within the communities we work with, Pernod Ricard India's WAL program is empowering more than 5633 smallholding farmers to go beyond subsistence-based living and earn better disposable incomes.

Promotion of low cost micro-agriculture has revolutionized the optimal use of landholdings as small as 540 sq. m. Coupled with organo-regenerative production and pest-control practices, these interventions are ensuring long-term viability and biodiversity preservation on more than 4000 acres of land in the vicinity of our operations.

Discover what we do at Pernod Ricard India Foundation and the WAL program.

Read the PRI CSR Program Report 2019-20 at www.prifoundation.com

19/01/2021

| We are committed to preventing and reversing land degradation by promoting sustainable agricultural production with farming communities near our operations.

The WAL (Water, Agriculture, Livelihoods) program tailors locally feasible, climate resilient and cost-efficient approaches to scaling up the crop productivity and filling erratic knowledge gaps with capacity building of 2,000+ farmers.

With 210 trainings, farmers been provided with unique Package of Practices (PoP) to sustainably improve soil nutrition, seed selection and cropping practices. This has demonstrated a 12-34% increase in yield of local crops in Behror. In Derabassi, Rice & Wheat Intensification have been designed specifically for small farmers offering a 20% yield increase at negligible cost.

Discover what we do at Pernod Ricard India Foundation and the WAL program.
Read the PRI CSR Program Report 2019-20
at www.prifoundation.com

In Picture: A Farmer Field Day in action, near PRI Plant in Karoda, Behror.

14/01/2021

- As India’s water scarcity problem aggravates each year, shaping drought-resilient communities near our operations is a key tenet of the WAL(Water, Agriculture, Livelihoods) program.

Primarily working with agrarian communities in 120 villages, the program has ensured that they have year-round access to water with 124 surface storage and groundwater recharge structures created last year. Given that more than 80% of India’s freshwater is used in agriculture in largely unsustainable ways, the program is also helping farmers switch to micro-irrigation practices such as sprinkler and drip irrigation. These interventions coupled with laser land-levelling techniques have demonstrated up to 40% decrease in water use in agriculture.

Discover what we do at Pernod Ricard India Foundation and the WAL program.
Read the PRI CSR Program Report 2019-20 at www.prifoundation.com

14/01/2021

| Pernod Ricard India’s flagship WAL (Water, Agriculture, Livelihoods) program fosters water resilience while driving sustainable production and augmenting rural livelihoods. WAL ensures that 1,08,000 community members near our operations are de-risked off the deepening water scarcity and degenerative agri-practices.

Working with 30,000 marginal farmers, the program deploys integrated approaches in watershed management and regenerative agriculture. With entrepreneurial development initiatives, the program is also empowering 4,300 rural women to transform traditional value chains and lead village development at the forefront.

Discover what we do at Pernod Ricard India Foundation and the WAL program.
Read the PRI CSR Program Report 2019-20 at www.prifoundation.com

13/01/2021

Pernod Ricard India believes in supporting the communities around its plants towards societal and economic progress.

We believe that our relationship with our communities has the power to unleash the next wave of growth and development for the country. With people at the core of our programs and a strong plant-based footprint, We are and transforming the lives of ~900,00 people across 19 states in India.

Read the PRI CSR Program Report 2019-20 to know more:
https://lnkd.in/ePDP8zq

08/01/2021

We are proud to announce that Pernod Ricard India Foundation has joined hands with Ambuja Cement Foundation to address the primary healthcare needs and promote responsible consumption and road safety with 3,500 truck drivers in Derabassi, Punjab.

The Truck drivers’ community has tirelessly worked to ensure that India’s supply chain and services remain robust through all times; merry and challenging, often at the cost of their own well-being. Through this programme, we reaffirm our commitment to Leaving No Trucker Behind!

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Punjab, January 5, 2021: Ambuja Cement Foundation (ACF) partners with Pernod Ricard India Foundation (PRIF), the non-profit subsidiary of Pernod Ricard India Ltd, to address primary healthcare needs…

14/10/2020

Creating a positive impact on the environment and the community that we are a part of, is a responsibility we take very seriously, and we measure our growth, not only through the economic value we generate but also through the value and gains, that we create for our society and natural ecosystems. Pernod Ricard’s Global Sustainability and Responsibility Roadmap 2030 outlines a clear path for us to protect and nurture our terroir; by focusing on biodiversity preservation.

We are proud to partner with WWF-India in this program which will help create long-term convivial relationship between humans and elephants to drive a larger restorative in four districts of Assam.

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The project will work across 150 villages in Kamrup, Sonitpur, Biswanath, and Nagaon districts and train community members on effective situation management by developing a toolkit and forming anti-depredation squads, which would help them protect their property, crops, and lives.

08/07/2020

In the light of the massive financial hardship that the F&B industry is facing due to , Pernod Ricard India Foundation has partnered with NRAI- National Restaurant Association of India of India, the largest restaurant body in the country, to pledge INR 1.4 Crore towards the welfare of distressed employees working behind the bars in NRAI Members’ Restaurants.

We remain committed to standing behind our communities across the country as we face the ongoing crisis and persevere to come out of it, together.

Pernod Ricard India has partnered with the National Restaurant Association of India (NRAI) to pledge a support of INR 1.4 Crore